WEBVTT - Bad Cops | 1. The Tracker

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<v Speaker 1>This is Steve Fishman from Orbit Media and I want

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<v Speaker 1>to introduce you to our new series, The Burden Bad Cops,

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<v Speaker 1>produced by BBC. It's a series I really love and

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<v Speaker 1>we're proud to re release it as part of our

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<v Speaker 1>anthology of great true crime series. One thing I really

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<v Speaker 1>value in podcasts is journalistic excellence and as a BBC specialty,

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<v Speaker 1>Jessica Lusenhopp is the host reporter who spent three years

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<v Speaker 1>on this story, and it shows all the characters talk,

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<v Speaker 1>secrets are revealed, even the villain speaks to her. You

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<v Speaker 1>us into another world, a very frightening one, a world

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<v Speaker 1>where you can't tell the protectors from the predators. A

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<v Speaker 2>Mister Gondo, are you formerly a Baltimore Police Department detective? Yes,

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<v Speaker 2>that's correct, and are you a defendant in this case?

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<v Speaker 3>Yes?

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<v Speaker 2>What have you played guilty?

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<v Speaker 4>Now to a shocking corruption scandal in Baltimore. Seven police

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<v Speaker 4>officers indicted on federal charges accused.

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<v Speaker 2>Now, these real life officers have been charged with abusing

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<v Speaker 2>their badges of being corrupt to the core. And why

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<v Speaker 2>did you plead guilty?

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<v Speaker 4>Because I'm guilty?

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<v Speaker 2>What are you charged with in this case? Charge with

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<v Speaker 2>a racketeering conspiracy which consists of roubis, citizens, falsified document.

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<v Speaker 5>One sergeant, and six detectives, all at some point assigned

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<v Speaker 5>to the department. It's Gun Trace Task Force, aren't handcuffs?

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<v Speaker 2>And when did you rob people? When did you rob

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<v Speaker 2>citizens working? And what did you steal from them?

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<v Speaker 1>Money?

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<v Speaker 2>Did you also steal drugs? Yes? And what did you

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<v Speaker 2>do with the drugs that you stole from people?

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<v Speaker 6>Sold them?

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<v Speaker 2>And what did you do with the money you stole

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<v Speaker 2>from people? Gipt it?

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<v Speaker 4>The indictment reads like the script for a gangster film.

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<v Speaker 4>A lot of people say this that this case sounds

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<v Speaker 4>more like the plot of a movie, but it all

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<v Speaker 4>really happens. At the heart of this scandal is a

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<v Speaker 4>small unit of plain clothes police, the Gun Trace Task Force.

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<v Speaker 4>Their job to make the city of Baltimore a safer

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<v Speaker 4>place by getting illegal guns off the street. Instead, they

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<v Speaker 4>acted like a criminal gang, operating in the shadows, mostly

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<v Speaker 4>in poor black neighborhoods. They robbed residents, broke into houses,

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<v Speaker 4>stole drugs, and planted evidence. They were both cops and robbers,

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<v Speaker 4>and they'd been doing it for years. The fallout is huge.

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<v Speaker 4>Hundreds of criminal cases dropped and thousands are now under review.

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<v Speaker 4>So how did this happen? That's what I've been trying

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<v Speaker 4>to figure out. I'm Jessica Lesson Hop and this is

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<v Speaker 4>bad Cops from the BBC World Service, The True Story

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<v Speaker 4>of Baltimore's Gun Trace Task Force, Part one. The Tracker

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<v Speaker 4>Baltimore is as much a character as any other in

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<v Speaker 4>this story. It's an old city, a seaport city, famous

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<v Speaker 4>for crabs, for a style of music called Baltimore Club,

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<v Speaker 4>and yes, famous for the TV show The Wire. It's

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<v Speaker 4>blocks of row houses and brick buildings made from the

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<v Speaker 4>clay that the city was built on. It's a place

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<v Speaker 4>that loves street parties and cookouts at stop lights. Kids

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<v Speaker 4>run up to your car and wash your windshield for tips.

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<v Speaker 4>You can still buy fruit from horse drawn carts in

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<v Speaker 4>the street. It sounds cheesy, but some of the prettiest

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<v Speaker 4>sunsets I've ever seen have been in Baltimore. It's also

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<v Speaker 4>a city with another side. Old racist laws carved Baltimore

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<v Speaker 4>into segregated newsighborhoods. Job losses and white flight left a

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<v Speaker 4>lot of those beautiful row homes boarded up. Drugs devastated communities,

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<v Speaker 4>and then the War on Drugs emptied those neighborhoods and

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<v Speaker 4>filled prisons. Guns are everywhere and in amongst all of that.

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<v Speaker 4>Most people are just trying to get by. But minding

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<v Speaker 4>your own business is no guarantee that you'll be safe.

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<v Speaker 5>My name's I'm Kenneth Bumgardner live in Baltimore, Maryland.

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<v Speaker 4>Kenneth is in his early forties. He's a family guy.

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<v Speaker 5>I have a wife, two daughters, three step kids, four grandkids.

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<v Speaker 4>He does general maintenance for a property management company.

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<v Speaker 5>I do apartment checks, fixing like refrigerators, dishwashers, make sure

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<v Speaker 5>people got hot water, cleaning out, taking a trash out,

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<v Speaker 5>just basically maintenance, you know.

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<v Speaker 4>In early twenty sixteen, Kenneth rents a brand new BMW.

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<v Speaker 4>It's a surprise for his Sun's birthday, and on this

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<v Speaker 4>particular evening, he's feeling good cruising behind the wheel of

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<v Speaker 4>this flashy ride. In his jacket pocket. He's got a

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<v Speaker 4>month's rent money, plus the extra that he still owes

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<v Speaker 4>his landlord.

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<v Speaker 5>I was riding through like my old neighborhood. For the

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<v Speaker 5>next thing I know, I see two cars pulling on me,

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<v Speaker 5>all black, and guys jump out.

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<v Speaker 4>It's dark. Kenneth thinks he's about to be robbed, and

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<v Speaker 4>he's not about to hang around to find out.

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<v Speaker 5>He sings up with my car and reversed and went

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<v Speaker 5>to hit the gas. They start ramming my car back with.

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<v Speaker 4>His vehicles forced back up onto the car. He's stuck.

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<v Speaker 5>My adrenaline was pumping a hundred mile now, you know,

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<v Speaker 5>like I was scared for my life, you know, like

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<v Speaker 5>I didn't know what was going to happen or who

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<v Speaker 5>he was. And I jumped out of the car.

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<v Speaker 4>Right and he only manages to get a few feet and.

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<v Speaker 5>Then everything went black, completely black. That was out, lights

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<v Speaker 5>was out, and I was out. You know.

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<v Speaker 4>Kenneth is left lying on the street. When he finally

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<v Speaker 4>comes to, he feels in his jacket pocket for his rent.

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<v Speaker 5>Money, got checked it and it was gone.

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<v Speaker 4>He's been robbed and he's badly hurt, but He somehow

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<v Speaker 4>makes it back home and passes out.

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<v Speaker 5>The next morning, I woke up and my wife was like,

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<v Speaker 5>I think you need to go to the hospital. And

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<v Speaker 5>when I got to the hospital, he was like, yeah, well,

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<v Speaker 5>your jar is completely fractured. The next day I came

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<v Speaker 5>back in for the opera and he wired my jaws shut.

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<v Speaker 4>Kenneth's teeth are in pieces and his jaw stay's wired

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<v Speaker 4>shut for the next five months. He loses fifty pounds,

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<v Speaker 4>only can have a meal replacement shakes, and pretty soon

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<v Speaker 4>he's sick of them.

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<v Speaker 5>I was desperate, man, I wanted some fast, fool bad.

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<v Speaker 4>He goes to the closest place and orders a double

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<v Speaker 4>cheeseburger with fries. Back home, he sticks it all in

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<v Speaker 4>a blender.

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<v Speaker 5>I blended it all up and I tried to suck

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<v Speaker 5>it through a store through one of the little gaps

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<v Speaker 5>in my teeth, and I wound up choking on it.

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<v Speaker 5>And he choked me so bad that my wife had

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<v Speaker 5>to get a picture of water and pour it down

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<v Speaker 5>my mouth to stop it from choking, because it almost

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<v Speaker 5>killed me.

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<v Speaker 4>Because his money's been stolen, he can't pay his landlord.

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<v Speaker 4>Kenneth and his family get evicted the car rental company

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<v Speaker 4>sends a bill for sixty seven thousand dollars for the

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<v Speaker 4>smash BMW.

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<v Speaker 5>Yes this lot. They actually had to take it out

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<v Speaker 5>of my check every month. I'll be paying the rest

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<v Speaker 5>of my life.

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<v Speaker 4>Maybe that's what it can be like. In parts of Baltimore.

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<v Speaker 4>People live right on the edge. A single misfortune can

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<v Speaker 4>send your whole life off course. But there's more to

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<v Speaker 4>Kenne's story than meets the eye. Baltimoreans are tired of

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<v Speaker 4>being defined by this kind of violence, and they say

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<v Speaker 4>that the reality is they're caught between two sides, the

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<v Speaker 4>criminals and the police. In twenty fifteen, twenty five year

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<v Speaker 4>old Freddy Gray is chased and arrested by a group

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<v Speaker 4>of cops. Bystanders film on their phones as three officers

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<v Speaker 4>lift him off the ground in handcuffs. A word of warning.

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<v Speaker 4>I've seen this video many times and the audio is

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<v Speaker 4>really hard to listen to. His legs are limp as

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<v Speaker 4>the cops drag him towards the back of a police fan.

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<v Speaker 4>A week later, Gray dies in hospital from a spinal

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<v Speaker 4>cord injury. It's as if he dove headfirst into shallow water.

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<v Speaker 4>There's speculation that he'd been taken on a rough ride.

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<v Speaker 4>It's where police purposely drive crazy to throw the passenger

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<v Speaker 4>in the back around bang him up for being mouthy

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<v Speaker 4>or uncooperative. In the back of that police fan, Gray's

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<v Speaker 4>hands and feet were shackled and he wasn't wearing a seatbelt.

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<v Speaker 4>After his death, thousands take to the streets. It's mostly peaceful,

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<v Speaker 4>but on the day of his funeral, things turn very ugly.

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<v Speaker 4>Fighting breaks out, bricks start flying, glass bottles, It's pure chaos. Looting,

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<v Speaker 4>fires and violence spread across the city. A state of

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<v Speaker 4>emergency is declared. Even the President weighs in.

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<v Speaker 7>What I think the people of Baltimore want more than

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<v Speaker 7>anything else, is the truth.

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<v Speaker 8>That's what people around the country expect.

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<v Speaker 4>Gray's death is declared a homicide.

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<v Speaker 2>Six officers are under arrest tonight on criminal charges.

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<v Speaker 7>This evening, Gray's family called this a first step toward justice.

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<v Speaker 4>I remember thinking this felt like a huge deal at

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<v Speaker 4>the time. People were dancing in the streets for Baltimoreans

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<v Speaker 4>who complained for years about death in police custody, rough rides, assaults.

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<v Speaker 4>Maybe things would be different this time. The city's mayor

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<v Speaker 4>promises the police will be held accountable.

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<v Speaker 8>To those of you who wish to engage in brutality, misconduct, racism,

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<v Speaker 8>and corruption. Let me be clear, there is no place

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<v Speaker 8>in the Baltimore City Police Department for you.

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<v Speaker 4>But that optimism soon fades, either out of fear or

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<v Speaker 4>in protest. The police pull back arrests. Plummet twenty fifteen

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<v Speaker 4>will end up one of the deadliest in the city's history,

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<v Speaker 4>three hundred and forty two homicides, the third highest on record.

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<v Speaker 4>None of the officers in the Freddie Grey case will

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<v Speaker 4>be convicted, and those promises of reform will soon feel

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<v Speaker 4>distant and improbable. For one officer on duty that day,

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<v Speaker 4>the protests even present an opportunity Sergeant Wayne Jenkins, Golden

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<v Speaker 4>Boy of the Baltimore Police Department. During the violence, he

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<v Speaker 4>commandeers a van and drives it through a crowd to

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<v Speaker 4>rescue injured officers. For that, he's awarded the Bronze Star

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<v Speaker 4>for Bravery, and the following year, his bosses give Jenkins

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<v Speaker 4>command of an elite unit of cops, the Gun Trace

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<v Speaker 4>Task Force.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm Sergeant Wayne's a gun Trace passworce Baltimore.

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<v Speaker 1>City place apart.

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<v Speaker 7>I'm Sergeant Wayne, Thanks pass on Trace Task Force.

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<v Speaker 4>The Task Force are super cops. They get results. While

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<v Speaker 4>other cops might recover an illegal gun once a week

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<v Speaker 4>or every two weeks, these guys are bringing in three,

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<v Speaker 4>sometimes four guns in a single night.

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<v Speaker 2>Hold on, hold on, hold on, thinking it out, thinking out.

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<v Speaker 5>Up.

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<v Speaker 7>Take a picture of it.

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<v Speaker 4>Here's Jenkins leading his task force team in a bust.

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<v Speaker 4>They've found bundles of cash stashed in a drug dealer's basement.

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<v Speaker 7>Nobody touches you are saying me right now, how much

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<v Speaker 7>you take it is, Keep your caring on. Don't touch it,

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<v Speaker 7>stay next to it. We're calling out of the fence.

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<v Speaker 7>Don't touch it, keep recording. No one such in his money.

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<v Speaker 4>It's bus like this that make the city bosses look

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<v Speaker 4>good for now at least. But while Jenkins and his

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<v Speaker 4>task force are out on the street tackling illegal guns,

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<v Speaker 4>there's another deadly threat rippling through Baltimore. The opioid crisis.

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<v Speaker 4>Dealers have flooded the city with heroin and it's killing

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<v Speaker 4>a lot of people. The cops are trying to fight back.

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<v Speaker 4>One of those cops is Detective David McDougall from the

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<v Speaker 4>neighboring Hartford County s Year's Office.

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<v Speaker 3>I've been doing drug investigations like this most of my career.

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<v Speaker 3>So I'm just used to sitting in a car. I'm

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<v Speaker 3>comfortable sitting in a car. That's what I do almost

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<v Speaker 3>every day.

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<v Speaker 4>McDougall does a lot of surveillance from his vehicle, trying

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<v Speaker 4>to trace the source of the heroine.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it's stressful at times when you're sitting in one

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<v Speaker 3>place for a long time and you're the one that

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<v Speaker 3>can't miss this, like one thing happening. So you're watching, watching,

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<v Speaker 3>watching like I can't you get almost like you can't

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<v Speaker 3>look away because it give me that split second where

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<v Speaker 3>it happens. Whatever it is that you're watching for.

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<v Speaker 4>Tell us some of your tricks of the trade.

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<v Speaker 3>The key is always have enough food. You know, you

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<v Speaker 3>can be in your car for more than a day,

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<v Speaker 3>so that in peat bottles. Make sure you have pea bottles.

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<v Speaker 3>That's that's definitely a key because there's often times where

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<v Speaker 3>you can't get out of the car and you know

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<v Speaker 3>you gotta do what you gotta do.

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<v Speaker 4>When he's not in his car, McDougall is looking through

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<v Speaker 4>the phones of overdose victims to see who they were

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<v Speaker 4>lasting time with. He's checking the texts or calls for

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<v Speaker 4>the names of dealers, and there's this one name that

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<v Speaker 4>keeps popping up over and over, Aaron Anderson. Anderson is

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<v Speaker 4>a pretty big heroin dealer. He runs his operation from

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<v Speaker 4>the parking lot of a shopping center in northeast Baltimore.

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<v Speaker 3>I started doing lengthy surveillances and following him, trying to

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<v Speaker 3>piece together his organization. It would sell large amounts, hundreds

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<v Speaker 3>of grams, and then it would sell small amounts, one

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<v Speaker 3>gram or half gram. They utilize different vehicles and kind

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<v Speaker 3>of did a lot of sales on.

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<v Speaker 6>The move, window the window, car to car.

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<v Speaker 4>McDougall's rattled by how brazen this all is. The dealers

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<v Speaker 4>operating in plain sight, even in front of the cops.

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<v Speaker 3>There's Mark patrol cars driving through the area, and these

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<v Speaker 3>guys are openly dealing drugs and for days, the same

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<v Speaker 3>thing every day, and nobody else seem to care.

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<v Speaker 6>I'm like, I just don't understand this.

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<v Speaker 4>It's almost as if Anderson's being protected somehow.

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<v Speaker 3>It is.

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<v Speaker 4>Ten years on the force, Detective McDougall's never seen anything

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<v Speaker 4>quite like this. He's shaken, but he continues watching the

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<v Speaker 4>dealer and collecting evidence. When he gets worried about being spotted,

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<v Speaker 4>he puts a GPS tracker on Anderson's car. This way

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<v Speaker 4>he can follow him from a distance. Finally, McDougall thinks

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<v Speaker 4>he's got enough to take Anderson down. His plan is

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<v Speaker 4>to arrest the dealer at his apartment, and he's just

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<v Speaker 4>about to do that, but then.

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<v Speaker 6>His pattern changes. He stops going.

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<v Speaker 4>The tracker he's put on Anderson's car shows that at

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<v Speaker 4>the end of every day, Anderson is winding up someplace else.

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<v Speaker 4>McDougall follows the signal and it leads him to a

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<v Speaker 4>Red Roof Inn. It's a two star motel perched on

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<v Speaker 4>a busy intersection a short drive north of the city.

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<v Speaker 4>I've read the online reviews and well, they're a little mixed.

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<v Speaker 4>They do love pets, though, and it's cheap and anonymous,

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<v Speaker 4>the perfect place to hide out. The Red Roof Inn

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<v Speaker 4>is a three story building with a pitched roof. The

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<v Speaker 4>doors on the second and third floors open onto a

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<v Speaker 4>long balcony that wraps around the building. Detective McDougall is

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<v Speaker 4>hunched down in its truck, staring up at room two

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<v Speaker 4>zero seven on the second floor. He and his team

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<v Speaker 4>are waiting for that door to open. When Anderson and

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<v Speaker 4>his girlfriend finally step out, the cops surround them and

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<v Speaker 4>place them under arrest. Still, McDougall's curious, why has Anderson

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<v Speaker 4>been staying in this motel.

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<v Speaker 3>That's one of the first questions I asked him, and

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<v Speaker 3>he told me about the home invasion.

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<v Speaker 4>The home invasion a week earlier, Anderson was out of town.

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<v Speaker 4>His girlfriend was home alone. Two men in mass kicked

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<v Speaker 4>down the front door and threatened her with a gun.

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<v Speaker 4>They made off with jewelry and cash. When Anderson returned,

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<v Speaker 4>his girlfriend told him what happened, and the couple were scared.

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<v Speaker 4>They didn't know if the Mass men would be back,

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<v Speaker 4>so they decided to hide out in the red roof

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<v Speaker 4>in It's not unusual for rival dealers to rob one another,

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<v Speaker 4>and for the moment, McDougall doesn't think much of it,

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<v Speaker 4>but it's the first clue that something's not quite right.

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<v Speaker 4>The next clue comes just moments later, as they're preparing

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<v Speaker 4>to drive Anderson off to jail. One of McDougall's men

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<v Speaker 4>is under the dealer's car, removing the tracker they've been

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<v Speaker 4>using to tail him, and he calls McDougall over.

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<v Speaker 3>He then asked me if we had two trackers on

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<v Speaker 3>the car, and I thought him no.

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<v Speaker 6>When he pulls it off and shows me the second.

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<v Speaker 4>Tracker, They've found another tracker under Anderson's car. McDougall's standing

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<v Speaker 4>there with this GPS device in his hand. Is it

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<v Speaker 4>one of theirs? He doesn't recognize it. He asked the

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<v Speaker 4>rest of his team if they do.

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<v Speaker 3>And nobody did, so I was kind of upset because

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<v Speaker 3>I'm thinking somebody else was on my guy and didn't

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<v Speaker 3>tell me.

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<v Speaker 4>McDougall's checked already, and no one else is supposed to

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<v Speaker 4>be investing aiding Anderson, so who else has been on

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<v Speaker 4>his tail? It's way too weird to let go. He

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<v Speaker 4>contacts the tracker company to find out who owns this thing,

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<v Speaker 4>and the next day he's got a name, but it's

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<v Speaker 4>not a name he recognizes. He runs it through the

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<v Speaker 4>system to see if the guy's got a record. Dozens

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<v Speaker 4>of results come back, but it's not because the guy's

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<v Speaker 4>got a long rap sheet. He's never been arrested. Instead,

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<v Speaker 4>he's the one doing the arresting because the owner of

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<v Speaker 4>that mystery tracker, he's a cop.

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<v Speaker 6>A Baltimore City Police officer.

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<v Speaker 4>McDougall starts spinning all kinds of theories. Could this officer

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<v Speaker 4>be involved in some kind of secret investigation that's been

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<v Speaker 4>kept off the books? You know, cops cut corners sometimes.

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<v Speaker 4>But then McDougall discovers that this guy's paid for the

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<v Speaker 4>tracker himself with his own credit card.

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<v Speaker 3>There's no way that a police officer is going to

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<v Speaker 3>pay for his own tracker.

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<v Speaker 6>That really wasn't adding up.

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<v Speaker 4>McDougall's struggling to make any sense of this. Why would

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<v Speaker 4>a Baltimore cop by one of these things for himself?

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<v Speaker 4>And then he has a darker thought.

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<v Speaker 3>At the time the home invasion happened, Anderson's far away

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<v Speaker 3>from his apartment. That is a great time to try

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<v Speaker 3>to steal his drugs and money because he's not there.

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<v Speaker 3>What if a police officer put the tracker on Anderson's

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<v Speaker 3>car to track his movements to conduct the home invasion?

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<v Speaker 4>A cop robbing a dealer.

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<v Speaker 3>It sounded crazy as I was saying it, But I

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<v Speaker 3>was saying it, I could look around and see people looking.

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<v Speaker 6>At me, like, come on, man.

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<v Speaker 4>What McDougall doesn't know yet is that he's tugged on

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<v Speaker 4>a thread. It's a thread that will unravel a web

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<v Speaker 4>of corruption right at the heart of the Baltimore Police Department.

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<v Speaker 4>Because that cop, he's no ordinary cop. He's one of

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<v Speaker 4>the Golden Boys from the Gun Trace Task Force. And

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<v Speaker 4>maybe they're not quite as golden as everybody thinks. That's

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<v Speaker 4>next time You've been listening to Bad Cops from the

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<v Speaker 4>BBC World Service with me Jessica lessen Hoop. The program

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<v Speaker 4>was mixed by Neil Churchill, additional mixing by James Beard.

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<v Speaker 4>The producer is Ben Crichton and the editor is Richard Varden.

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